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καρκάδων

karkadon

the price paid to Charon by the dead for their passage

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What it meant

1. καρκάδων · karkadōn — Beekes

καρκάδων, -wvos [?] ‘the price paid to Charon by the dead for their passage’ (Phot., Suid.). «Ὁ eETYM Unknown. Kapkaipw [v.] only in Y 157 κάρκαιρε δὲ γαῖα πόδεσσιν ὀρνυμένων, explained in antiquity as éxpadaiveto, σείετο ‘trembled’, or as ἐψόφει ‘roared’ (details in Fraenkel 1910: 132’, though with a wrong explanation). “VAR ἐκάρκαιρον' ψόφον τινὰ ἀπετέλουν ‘produced a noise’ (H.). … — [Beekes, s.v. καρκάδων, p. 692]

2. καρκάδων · karkadōn — Chantraine

καρκάδων, -ovoc : prix du passage payé à Charon par les morts (Phot., Suid.). — [Chantraine, s.v. καρκάδων, p. 512]

3. καρκάδων · karkadōn — LSJ

the fee paid to Charon by the dead

the fee paid to Charon by the dead, Phot., Suid.:—expld. by some Gramm. as name of a plant.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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